[Phieta]

Tomorrow, 7 November 2006, is election day here in the United States.

I'd like to take this time to remind all of the registered voters we have here that your right to vote comes with the responsibility to make sure you're well-informed. So please...

• If you don't understand the issues at hand, don't vote.
• If you don't know where the candidates stand on those issues, don't vote.
• If you're planning to vote for whoever and whatever is most likely to win because you don't want to "waste" your vote on the losing side, don't vote.
• If you're planning to vote along party lines, don't vote. (Unless you've actually examined the issues and still agree with your party of choice, of course.)
• If you're planning to vote based solely on political advertisements (including those "voter guide" mailers), don't vote. Most of them bend the truth and leave out crucial details. A few lie outright.

Voting is an important part of our electoral process, so tomorrow, go out and vote — but only if you know what you're doing. If you don't understand who or what you're voting for, you're just being played.

"i didn't really care i just voted wat my dad did" —a friend of mine on AIM. (Yes, "voted." Past tense. Absentee ballot.)

[Jake]

I wish more voters were like you. Most paople that vote are semi-political sheeple that believe everything they hear on tv. You would have a blast watching texas political ads. (youtube it)

[Bespetna]

Points the the "don't vote" comercial I saw on CNN.
Also you shoouldn't vote becouse youll get jurry duty

[Neraphym]

Yeah, that's one reason I'm not registered. Jury duty would destroy my studies...

Anywho, I am too concerned with school and stuff to ever become informed on the issues and where certain candidates stand on them. My biggest problem with republican democracy is that I'm pretty much forced to choice the lesser of two attrocious evils. Do I pick the guy that will help destroy the economy or the guy who will take away all civil rights and establish a theocracy?

Electronic Direct Democracy is the way of the future, and the technology to do it is finally here. Let's stop electing retards to run countries and run them ourselves!

[Daryl C]

I have no intentions of voting today since I am a Canadian citizen, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on this subject. I hate to break it to you but the list that you had there knocks out about 99% of the eligible votes of the US.

Would you really want the fate of the country decided by 1 million votes?

Everyone has the right to vote and should exercise that right. In fact you should be happy you even have the right to vote, in many countries you are not given that right.

[Star Jedi]

Well..I can't vote yet, so.

Next year I can

And for the 1 million voters that have logical votes.. I guess I don't find that a *horrible* idea.

[Snowy]

*votes to legalize weed*

[Jake]

In texas, one of our governor candidates wants to do that as part of a way to keep police focused on more serious drugs that actually kill. [url=kinkyfriedman.com]kinky friedman] In all seriousness. I <3 this guys stance on education since our school system is a joke.

[Res]

I have to agree with him. Anyone who is going out to vote ought to have some idea of why they're voting for what they're voting for. If a lot of hoohahs take a side on some subject they don't even know about, much less think through thoroughly, we could end up in a bad place.

Remember, Communism looks good on paper. Show it to a bunch of rednecks, they'll vote for it and persuade others to do the same. Pretty soon we have a full on commy-support system from uneducated people. So I am in agreement with him to know about what you're voting for before you hit the polls.

[Ruckus Fox]

*votes to legalize weed*

You realize that such a bill simply means that people who are diagnosed with ailments that require marijuana as treatment can then grow it themselves and nothing more? If you don't need it, it's illegal, and you don't get it for free, you can simply grow it.

Hai, just Ruckus here reminding you to vote NO on Amendment C (If applicable) so that quasi-marriages are still alive. If it passes, we're still going to live together, you can't stop that.

If your state is also voting on an initiated movement 6, I'm also encouraging you to vote NO.

If you want facts, ask, or just study them like I did.

--Ruckus

[Jake]

communism ftw

[Snowy]

*votes to legalize weed*

You realize that such a bill simply means that people who are diagnosed with ailments that require marijuana as treatment can then grow it themselves and nothing more? If you don't need it, it's illegal, and you don't get it for free, you can simply grow it.

Hai, just Ruckus here reminding you to vote NO on Amendment C (If applicable) so that quasi-marriages are still alive. If it passes, we're still going to live together, you can't stop that.

If your state is also voting on an initiated movement 6, I'm also encouraging you to vote NO.

If you want facts, ask, or just study them like I did.

--Ruckus

Yeah I know that. But I plan on having cancer later on in life. My parents voted for legalize marijuana and they said they voted yes on gay marriages. Congorats Ruckus. Lol.

[Arith]

lmao five years until i can vote.

[Zziggywolf5]

Heh, I can vote just in time for the next presidential election. Shame everyone'll vote for a Democrate just to get rid of the Republicans, but that's how the two party system works.

Really, though, it's not hard to get information on a polictical platform, just have to know what's crap and not be lazy.

[Darkness]

I have no intentions of voting today since I am a Canadian citizen, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on this subject. I hate to break it to you but the list that you had there knocks out about 99% of the eligible votes of the US.

Would you really want the fate of the country decided by 1 million votes?

Everyone has the right to vote and should exercise that right. In fact you should be happy you even have the right to vote, in many countries you are not given that right.

.. o.O If those million votes are all informed people then yes.

Would you rather the fate of our country be decided by 1 million people who know what they're talking about or 300 million people who have no clue what each proposition or candidate says?